Evening Star Newspaper, March 17, 1930, Page 8

WASHINGTON, D, C., MARCH 17. 1830. THIS AND THAT THE EVENING STAR. MONDAY, STAR 'th the average car some six feet ln‘klm( the problem of speed on land: IM‘ width the dangers of collision in passing | to the pioneers, who take their lives in | THE EVENING ANSWERS 'l'O Q_UEST]UNS __With Sunday Morning Edition. WASHINGTON, D. C MONDAY. .. ~ | can readily be realized. For this reason many motorists have the saving of time, and otbers have their hands to prove theories which Iater are put into general practice for | March 17, 1930 Probsbly avolded the highway despite | the comfort of clvilization, must go credit of the highest order. It is no BY CHARLES E. TRACEWELL. The Political Mill G. Gould Lincoln. By BY FREDERIC J. HASKTR, _ = Wiliam M. Butler, former Senator | nd former chairman of the Republican national committee and now a candi- date for the Republican senatorial | in Massachusetts, has | ice. begin' no Take sdvantage. of this free serviee.| Q. In Eeyptian furnitise 14 /(e W you are one of the thousands who of the ox-lég design antedate the lon pertod ox legs were THEODORE W. NOYES .. .Editor | shunned resorts which would'normally | simple matter to drive an automoble at - have patronized the bureau, write us|legs?—F. N. to thd impor- R be reached by this road. It was esti- [ speeds in excess of two hundred miles The Evening Star Newspaper Company | m2ted at the Citizens' Club mesting {an hour. Likewise it is no armchair ing immense cerise blooms 3 inches across. The red ties were gorgeous. | nothing less; parakeets might have en- Those who have faith that men some day will dress sensibly, in accordance { with the requirements of health, con- again. If you have never used the serv- | It is maintained for 1 and more usu % V , road.” ! Business -Mce ol o ement: H en their eyss on vied their splendors. Y. don’'t e | nomination - 1yt ana Peansyioanis ave UM My oA, DF NI Ao, R men wearing. such tis anymove. They | Iabeled himself “dry.” Gov. Allen of | your benefit. Be sure to send your name | tance of agriculture in early Egypt. New York Ofce 10 Bast 426 8 | will bring an increase of from twenty | wings of which will not support it in the | neckties. n § R | e e s andin paid. y hicago Office. Lake Michigan Buildine Neckwear is the barometer. have succumbed to the cries of con- |the Bay State, who is to be a candidate Vi , Q In what States of the Union is Eonkan Ofce 14 egent &8 London. | to Afty thousand persons in the shore |air at a speed of less than a hundred | LC*{NE"" S \ile goes, s0 go men's servatism which have jong gone up in |to succeed himseif. has also come out | close 2 cents in coln ot stamps for re- | b 40 Wt SWR €h ; | Rate by Carrier Within the City. 1 e Star 45¢ per month and Sunday Star ! Sundays) and Sunday Star ays) The Sundas St Collection ma ders may NAtional 8600 60¢ pes month 65¢ ver month Rate by Mall—Payable in Advance. Maryland and Virginia. dajty and Snnday. .. ) vi.$10.00; 1 mo.. 8¢ ?.m only yr'l $600: 1 mo.. 50c | unday only 1vr. 3400: 1 mo. 40c | AN Other Stites and Canada 34 Datiy mnd Sunday 4 vi.$1200. 1 mo . $1L00 iy only 1vr. $800 1mo. 75¢ unday oniy 1vi. $500: 1 mo. 50 Member of the Associated Press. The Associated Press 1s exclusively entitiea te the use for repiplica ion of nil nows dis Paiches crecited 0 it or not otherwite cred- | €d in this peper and miso the iocal news | ished Perein i1 rizhts of oublicaticn of | fal dlspatchi in alse reserved The 1931 Supply Bill. A few new legislative provisions and proposed changes in the Budget Bu- reau’s recommendations give exceptional interest to the District’s annual supply bill, reported to the House of Repre- | sentatives today Of chief importance among the legis- Iative changes is a new schedule nl’ water rates. the effect of which is to | increase the cost of water in Washing- | ton by about 40 per cent and to boost main assessments by 50 per cent. The increase decided upon in order to| finance a five-vear plan of extensions | and improvements in the local supply ' system. The new rates will continue *indefi y.” according to Col. Ladue, and if history repeats itself will subse- quently be followed by another boost, for the system of water plant financing tends toward constantly increasing rates as the plant is enlarged. Action of the | committee in deciding to ralse the rates instead of appropriating for capital ex- | penditures out of the general fund seems to have rested on the fact that a table of comparative rates indicated | that Washingten's water rate is 67 per cent less than the average in the twenty- | seven cities “investigated,” although no attempt was made to consider or discuss the equities involved or the factors en- tering into the scale of rates in other cities. Though the cost of water here | is thus represented as being far below | the “average” rate—such rates ranging from $6 in Minneapolis to $21 in Fall River—it is nevertheless interesting to note that Washington's new $10.50 rate is higher than in New York City, De- troit, Clsvcllnd. Minneapolis, Milwaukee and St. Paul. The desideratum, of course, should be cheap water—not high | Tates, The percentage of the Federal con- tribution in this year’s bill, which earries | “the usual Federal contribution of $9,000- 000, has been reduced to 21.51. The! contrast between this relative contribu- | tion and that of 1924, which amounted 1o 39.41 per cent, is the more striking when it is considered that the appro- priation total for 1931 more than doubles that of 1924. Despite this great increase, proposals of necessary projects are now met with the threat of a gen- eral raise in taxes. | Capital improvements carried in the bill include a project for the widening of H street from Seventh to Thirteenth, affording another wide traffic thorough- fare in the downtown system of streets; construction of a new bridge over Klingle Valley, on Connecticut avenue; | provision of five new schools and addi- tions to others and the reconstruction of the Monroe street overpass over the | tracks of the Baltimore & Ohio Rail-! road. This latter item becomes tmpor- | tant now because it was decided upon u‘ an alternative to widening Michigan | avenue and abolishing that dangerous ! crossing before attempting to improve the existing overpass on Monroe street. | The whole subject is now in contro- versy among citizens living in the areas affected. In the matter of grade cross- ings, one of the regrettable changes made by the committee in the Budget Bureau's recommendations was to strike out the item for eliminating the Fern street grade crossing in Takoma Park, | thus indefinitely postponing action on getting rid of such menaces in the Dis- trict. ‘The bill carries appropriations for com- pleting the purchase of municipal cen- ter sites and for the preparation of models and plans for the buildings. It | also provides for a new branch Public Library in Northeast Washington. One of the interesting legislative pro- visions inserted in the bill is designed to raise the qualifications of members of the police force by requiring that eandidates for the force possess a com- mon school education, which is a good move. Valuable additions to municipal personnel lie in the authorization of an increased force in the building in- spector's office; the creation of a new position in the office of the corporation counsel, to be filled by a lawyer, at & =alary of $6,500, who will devote all of his time to public utility matters; en- Iargement of the personnel of the Pub- Jic Utllities Commission, which includes the appointment of a senior engineer and a junior engineer, as well as au- ditors; addition of 14 new lieutenants in the police force and the creation of the post of microscopic chemist in the Health Department to aid the police in criminal investigations. - [ Authorities agree that while the stage is a means of education, “Ten Nights in a Bar Room"” exerts nothing like as much moral influence as one year under 2 padlock. | | | r—e—— - Defense Highway Widening. ‘Washingtonians are no doubt as much gratified as Marylanders at the plans of the State Highway Commission to start work on the widening of Defense Highway, otherwise known as “suicide At a meeting recently in An- napolis the Citizens’ Club was informed of the projected improvement, which will, during the coming Summer, em- brace ten or twelve miles of widened roadway. Next year the work will be completed. Defense’ Highway, aithough opened for only a few years, has compiled an unenviable record in motor car ac- cidents. Only fifteen feet wide, it is one of the most heavily traveled roads in the State, bzing a short cut fyom ‘Wash- | ington to Annapolis and the ¥ay resorts, | by | which is supporting Grundy. {such a campaign, with the manufac- | the campaign against Senator Grundy | reported to be ready to support Senator population within a few years. ! Maryland possesses one of the finest | road systems of any State, but the De- fense Highway has been a blot on its | fair reputation, Not only is the Y\"d‘ concrete. When the improvement is; completed it will be a pleasure instead | of a hazard to drive along this route to | beautiful Southern Maryland. | - —o—— | Davis' Hat in the Ring. | Formal announcement is mow made Secretary James J. Davis of the | Department of Labor that he will be ! & candidate for the Republican sena- | torial nomination. The Jines for a bit- | ter factional fight in the Keystone State have already been drawn. The State organization is backing Senator Joseph | R. Grundy. But Mr. Davis has back of him the Vare organization in Phila- delphia. He has in addition those | Republican leaders out in the State who | are not in line with the organization The fight for the seat now occupied by Senator Grundy goes back four years or more. "It promises, however, to be as hot as ever, if not hotter, with the | Secretary of Labor and Senator Grundy | at each other's political throats. Four rs ago the seat’ was occupied by Senator George Wharton Pepper. Wil- | liam S. Vare. then a member of the House and the acknowl:dged boss in Philadelphia Republican politics, was ambitious to enter the Senate. Former Gov. Pinchot saw an opportunity to enter the Upper House of Congress and cast his hat in the ring. Out of that | three-cornered fight, Vare emerged a | victor. But the Senate would not seat him because of the large expenditures | made in the primary campaign and | because of ' charges of corruption. | Grundy at that time was backing Go Fisher for the gubernatorial nomina- tion and Pepper and Pisher were allied. Mr. Davis points to his record as| Secrelary of Labor during the Hard- ing, Coolidge and Hoover administra- tions. He promises a fair deal for labor and for business. It is to be as- | sumed that his eandidacy will make its appeal to organized labor, for he has been popufar with labor. Senator Grun- dy. on the other hand, has for years| been president of the Pennsylvania Manufacturers’ Association, and it may | be etpected that the Pennsylvania | manufacturers will line up pretty solid- Iy for him in the coming campaign. Perhaps Mr. Davis is counting on just turers on one side and labor on the other. Neither Mr. Davis nor Sena- tor Grundy has heen a candidate for elective office before. But Senator Grundy has been the power behind the organization in many a past political battle as the raiser of campaign funds. Not since Senator Carter Glass of Virginia resigned from the office of Secretary of the Treasury to become Senator in 1920 upon the death of the late Senator Martin, has a member of | the cabinet sought to enter the Senate from the cabinet circle. Former Sena- tor Elihu Root left the office of Secre- tary of State to become Senator from New York in 1909. Mr. Davis has not indicated that he intends to resign his place in the Hoover cabinet to make for the senatorial momination. There is nothing to compel him to do so un- less it should be a feeling that his re- tention of his present office might be embarrassing to the President, who | naturally wishes to avoid being drawn | into party primary contests in Penn- sylvania or elsewhere, However, with Senator Grundy remaining in office and with Secretary Melion of the Treasury Grundy, it does not appear that Mr. Davis will trespass on the proprieties by retaining his present office. e ro— , English-American Competition. 1t is certainly fortunate that America has its Bobby Jones, Helen Wills and Gar Wood. Otherwise, with the appar- ently insatiable determination of Eng-| land to make and hold records of all kinds, and, as a rule, succeeding, American pride would be humbled in-| deed. Jones, of course, accounts for golf | superiority, Wills for tennis and Wuodl for speed on the water. England, how- ever, brooks no opposition in its land and air speed records. With Maj. Campbell and Maj. Segrave it has pushed the automobile speed mark to a point twenty-five miles an hour faster than any American has ever traveled. And, not content with this margin, has sent Kaye Don, another Englishman, to Daytona Beach to boost it still higher. In the air a British seaplane has flashed across the horizon at better than three hundred and fifty-seven miles an hour, ninety-one miles an hour faster than Lieut. Al Williams has been able to drive an American ship. On the water Gar Wood still reigns supreme, with a mark of ninety-three miles an hour; but the English see no reason why the United States should he allowed to keep even one record, in so far as speed is concerned, and boats are now being built for Maj. Segrave and Betty Car- stairs to exceed one hundred miles an hour. Kaye Don is now at Daytona, the greatest racing course in the world, waiting to put the automobile record to & point where competition will be dis- couraged. His new “roadster” is thirty feet longer and is powered by two twelve - cylindered motors developing more than two thousand horsepower. Theoretically, it will have a top speed in first gear of ninety miles an hour. In order to shift from second to high a speed of a hundred and seventy miles an hour must be attained. From that point on Don can “give her the gas” and the speedster, it is expected, will respond to about two hundred and fifty miles an hour. This is the speed that Don hopes to reach before returning to England, and if he does the record is likely to stand for a long time. ‘The American public wishes Don well in his attempt. It would wish him well even though an American held the ree ord. He is one of the ploneers in tac- and twenty miles an hour. Lieut. Orlebar, who established England's rec- ord of three hundred and fifty-seven miles an hour, is therefore just as much of a ploneer as Don. America does not 35 at (he end of ench month | One of the narrowest of any of the major begrudge these men their success. On | sent in by mail or telephone garieries, but the shoulders are of such the contrary, it congratulates them and ; soft ‘material that if the motorist is to | desires only that there shall be competi- | escape disaster he must stay on the |tion for all records betwen the two | season. wreat English-speaking ations. ——— - No one is seriously apprehensive about the announcement that Byrd is not in circumstances of personal affiuence. A vast admiring public is ready, at the earliest opportunity, to stand in line to purchase lecture tickets. Important progress is expected from Japan’s evident favor of what amounts to & form of the commission idea, by transmitting matters under considera- tion in London to the statesmen at Tokio for study and advice. B A disposition to hold judges to long hours and impose unusually heavy tasks | does not prevent confident expectation that capabllity and experience will be available in filling the vacancy on the District of Columbia bench. .- Delinquents in income tax payment will in many cases decide that the youth of the family will have the benefit of a business college course, Only the expert accountant is entirely at ease in mind along about the middie of March. Speeding up the Doheny case will be appreciated by the man who reads his newspaper from “kiver to kiver” and just now would ‘Hke to see as much space as possible devoted to base ball preparations. P s Being new to the idea of popular gov- ernment, Russia follows the usual prac- tice of the novice and seeks to solve the hardest problems in the most difficult | way. P Confidence is felt at this time of the | year that the worst of the Winter is over. As becomes & good old friend, St. Patrick Is always & kindly weather prophet. = o—one 0L Interest is being shown by Lindbergh in motor cycling. As & thorough-minded | man he is willing to take his chances on the earth as well as in the sky. SHOOTING STARS. BY PHILANDER JOHNSON. Study of Mankind. The novel brings a wondrous thrill— The essay cheers my mind, As they work out with cunning skill Thelr studies of mankind. And yet some spot I meke my choice ‘Where crowds are hurrying by To listen to the variant voice Of old Vox Popull. Sometimes the words are like my own, And sometimes Greek to me. They echo from some mystic zone From far across the sea In hope their message will rejoice, Or else they breathe a sigh, As there I listen to the voice Of old Vox Populi. Changes of Mind. “Weren't you surprised at the results of the recent poll on this important question?” “Not greatly,” answered Senator Sorghum. “People dislike anything like monotony. If we voted one way all the time, it would destroy half the pleasure of the ballot.” Jud Tunkins says when there was a straw vote out his way, some of the folks voted for the straws and cracked ice and everything. Wealth of Language. Where words of wisdom may be met, Glad hopes are on display— Unless so numerous that they get In one another's way. Making a Selection. “I have about decided,” said Miss Cayenne, “to be a Socialist.” “For what reason?” “Because you don't have to bother about reasons. All you have to do is to declare that you disapprove of things in general and Jet it go at that.” Fducation in Play. We teach the youngsters how to play, And many a father now is moved To hope the family golf some day ‘Will be by this means much improved. “Think highly of yourself, my son,” said Hi Ho, the sage of Chinatown, “and then endeavor so to live as to de- serve your own opinion. Statistics in Revelry. The nights with music were not filled-— The music seemed to balk— For hours the statesman's ears were thrilled With only tariff talk! “When you learns by experience,” said Uncle Eben, “you mos’ always fohgits de lesson an' goes on shootin’ craps jes' de same. ——tee. That’s Encouraging. From the Detroit Ne: A bill in Massachusetts would modify the present censorship so that the con- L e ot 2 whole, rather than ated es, On this basis it is felt that Shake- peare may pass. .- He Needs Them. Prom the Albany Evening News. w‘:‘:‘ no:l.c; (hat even the man with & usual accept the matches that are flven,w him when n; buys a package of cigarettes, Perpetual Fear. PFrom the Maverhill Evening Gagette, A baby, it is said, has only two fears ~—Iloud noise and loss of suj t. He recovers usually from the former but rarely ever from the lai o — Hope Springs Eternal. From the Cincinnati Times-Star. C{.r: m gut:.:ln&l lfwcr cnd Iower and mayl e c when (8- T the woman's camp. * % ok % Yet the other day we saw a friend wearing a cogwheel tie. He cheered us up for the day, and since he will wear that tie—doggedly, persistently, de- votedly—until it wears out, we know that we shall be cheered up each and every day until that hour comes. This tie is like none ever seen before. Its background is a greenish tan which is not_exactly green nor yet precisely fashlons. And the sad truth right'now is that men are going backward, for the neck- ties are next to nothing when it comes to_color. Here was the one article of wearing apparel upon which a man might vent a flaming soul, and all that he has | managed to do with it is to make it | duller and more conservative season by | | He might have given it a touch of !the splendor of dawn, or even made it | jan" If you can imagine a nice. nea imightily resemble & sunset At ItS|jawn getting a fashionable -sunta . brightest. you have the background. | He might have gone in for flowers, istrange geometric designs and pin- | wheels until the flowing Taiment of his neck resembled Solomon in his legen- | dary glory. | Instead he sticks to plain black, blue and polka dots ko % An inspection of the ties to be seen | upon manly necks reveals little material | encouraging to those who fondly hope as we have set forth in the first para- | graph above. {1t is perhaps a bit too early to say | what the Spring will do for us, but, if {we may judge from the last of the Winter cravats, it will be precious Iittle Fashion may run skirts up and down the Iadies’ legs. but the male of the | species is more obdurate. When it |comes to neckties he is as conservative las an elder or a deacon. | " He believes in strict enforcement of ! his personal constitution, which tells {h'm thal the best way to go through | the world is to attract as little atien- | tion as possible | He has swallowed whole the worthy | | 1dea that good taste is best shown by | | conservatism. Hence his ties become mast-rpieces of blue, browns and decp, rich reds. The chances are. moreover, that he is addicted to wearing one tie at a time, | no matter how many cravats he may | have stored away at home. | There was a period when tie holders | had big sales, and were purchased in | large numbers by modest maidens who wanted to give their “best fellows” a tasty but inexpensive Christmas present. This article took various forms, but the favorite was in the shape of a large ring, suspended by a chain. The whole was to be hitched to the gas chandlier, and ties were to be draped carelessly over and through the ring. * ok ok * But the background is only the back- ground. The cogwheels are the tie. Once a cravat designer weat mad and in_his delirfum saw cogwheels. Not just ordinary cogwheel: you, such as do noble duty on engines and so on and off. Not cogwheels with numerous cogs. These cogwheels were cravat cog- wheels, which to the tie-minded person conveys & wealth of meaning. Design- ers call them “‘conventionalized.” Cogwheel manufacturers would call them absurd. * ok ok ok But there is no escaping the fac that they were intentionally conceived as cogwheels. They have all the ear- marks, if not the trade marks, and seem to want to do nothing so much as spin delirfously around and around. One can get an acute case of sea- sickness by steadily watching those cogs for a few minutes, say when taking coffee with the owner at a restaurant table. At first you scarcely realize what is going on. = Your eyes are held as a bird’s. They become glued to the tie. You talk away. but all the time your unconscious mind Is considering that tle. The usual office chatter passes be- tween you, with comments on the Lon- don Conference thrown in for good measure. You may even discuss the question of poetry and Kipling’s place in it Nothing makes any difference except | those pinwheels rolling grotesquely | adown that stream of a cravat, as if de- termined to plunge headlong onto the shirt and go spinning away into space, to crash through the restaurant door. The cogwheels become more deter- mined to impress themselves upon your conscious mind. They begin to turn ferociously in their orbits as if to grind you to bits. “Stop!” you suddenly shout, utter amazement of mnearb: drinkers. “I know what it is “Well, what is it?" comes the un- spoken question of the innocent. “It’'s—it's that tie!" you groan in de- spair. saw it once in dreams after I had eaten both Welsh rabbit and raisin pie, but I never, never expected to see it come to life.” It takes a tie masterpiece. of course, [to have such an outrageous effect. | Mst of them are too conservative, too determined to keep up with the modern | maxim that all one has to do is to dress well to fool everybody into be- lieving that you are the president of your firm, or, at the least, general man- ‘The choice of the evening's ti= was, and no doubt still is, A major problem with the very young man. But in the old days they knew nothing about such | heartless facts as psychology throws | into our faces, d were happily free | from the feeling that if one hesitated | over the selection of a cravat for the Lavznmz h> thereby showed marked in- ! decision, and indecision was merely a | form of inferiority complex, and an in- | feriority complex revealed to the cruel | | world that one suffered from fear, and | the possession of fear demonstrated de- ! cisively some ancestor's mad passion for the chieftain's grandmother, or something like that, The possession of many cravats, both plain, speckled and banded, never in- dicated, nor does it now indicate, that | the man in question wore them. Usu- ally he wore one at a time, not just by the evening, but by the tie. In) other words, he wore them one by one, until each came to have a worn place | at the tying point. Then he discarded it for a fresh tie. | In the old days, however, the world was more speculative In regard to its ties. It would tie anything once. So we came to have yellow cravats bear- WASHINGTON OBSERVATIONS Mr. Hoover is refraining from any | ment and Observance Commission would public comment on the London naval | not be amiss, but nothing of the sort parley until such time as the conference | is in sight. The Wickersham Commis- finally agrees, or finally agrees to dis- |sion so far has not hankered after the agree and disbands. Secretary Stimson spotlight. and his American cohorts in London | ate for the time being the sole admin- | istration mouthpiece, albeit a pretty si- | lent one. The administration is proceed- ager. ":‘he progress of mankind, however, is toward bigger and better, and espe- cially gaudier, cravats. The cogwheels may roll us to freedom at last. And when we see the preclous statue of our sartorial liberty we will find it wearing a fine tie, a thing of many hues, prefer- ably decorated with huge and resplen- dent roses. Wouldn't roses be better !than cogwheels. 1 * ok % X Representative Charles L. Abernethy of North Carolina has introduced a bill providing that the Federal treasury ing upon the theory that at this critical | shall refund to the States one-half the time public statements might only bring | amount of all internal revenue taxes confusion worse confounded. But last | cojlected from the tobacco, cigar and week, when London dispatches Wcre | cigarette industry, The refunds, of more heavily surcharged with pessimism | course, are to go to the States within than ever before, the President permitted | whose borders such taxes are collected. himself the guarded assertion that his | This would be a fine scheme for North own reports from the conference “indi- | Carolina. Uncle Sam collected about cated progress is being made.” This!four hundred million dollars in to- simple message was intended to encour- | haeeo taxes last year, of which more age America not to abandon all hope. | thap half was paid in North' Carolina. and to remember that “All's well thal | Her share in such & refund scheme ends well.” To state It another way.|yould exceed a hundred million dollars, the conference still lives, and while | hoarly five times what the State of there is life there is always hope. North Carolina now expends annually, * % x4 | but her chances of obtaining any such Charles Francis Adams, the Secretary | windfall are without the realm of prob- of the Navy, did not write (he spicy | ability. Representative Abernethy’s bill 1902 tariff letter resurrected last week | will cost the Federal treasury no more by the Democrats. The letter enunciated | than the price of the ink and paper on n free-trade doctrine and branded all | which it is prln‘u& tariff advocates as “hogs” and all tariff | . | beneficiaries as “thieves” The Charies| William Murray Butler of Massa- Prancis Adams who signed this epistle textile millionaire, former ‘rhunells. | chairman of the Republican national committee, one-time member of the Senate, and now candidate in the Bay State senatorial primaries, has finally crossed the Rubicon in the prohibition issue, He proclaims himself bone dry, was the Secretary’s uncle. It is easy to confuse the various members of this | distinguished family. John Adams, our | second President and founder of the line, was the father of John Quincy ! Adams, our sixth President. The latter | to the | coffee | had two sons—John Quincy Adams, 2d, and Charles Francis Adams, 1st. The latter had four sons—Charles Francis Adams, 2d; John Quincy Adams, 3d; Brooks Adams and Henry Adams. The present Charles Prancix Adams, the third of the name, was the son of John Quincy Adams, the 3d; the grandson of Charles Francis Adams, the 1st, and the l:‘elt-mndwn of John Quincy Adams, the 1st, i Col. Leonard P. Ayers, the statistician, points out that former President Taft, dving at the age of 72, lived longer than any former President since the days of Millard_Fillmore, who died at 74. Our earlier Presidents had a greater span of life than those since Fillmore. John Adams died at 90, Jefferson at 83, Madi- son at 85, Jackson at 78, John Quincy Adams at 80, Martin Van Buren at 79 and James Buchanan at 77. Certainly the span of life among former Presi- dents has been shrinking since the early days of the Republic. . % Congress is asked {o appropriate $1,- 500,000 to permit the Library of Con- gress to purchase the famous collection of fifteenth century books assembled by Dr. Otto H. F. Vollbehr of Berlin, in the course of 30 years of book collecting in this field. Included in the collection is a copy of the Gutenberg Bible, earliest and finest example of the printing art and of well nigh priceless value. Promi- nent bibliophiles from all parts of the country appeared before the House Li- brary committee last week in support of the proposal. The burden of their tes- timony was that the Library of Con- gress now has an unusually poor repre- sentation of “incunabula,” the collec- tor's term for books which appeared during the first century of prin nd that the Vollbehr coilection is excep- tionally fine, and that it is an oppor- tunity which may never come again for the Nation to acquire such a wealth of book rarities. The bill is sponsored by Representative Ross Collins of Missis- sippi. il A The accomplishments of the White House Conference on Child Health and Protection will be reviewed in & weekly news bulletin, the issuance of which 15 to start at once, aceo! o an an- AR Ry by irector of tl conference b The conference itself will not transpire until next Winter, but meantime corps of experts are 'conducting national surveys of the various sspects of the problem. Presumably the weekly bulle- tin_ will chronicle their activities and their suggesiions, A afmilar medium for the Hoover Law 100 per cent for the eighteenth amend- ment, the Volstead act, and for his own State’s baby Volstead act, up for refer- endum repeal next November. In the judgment of most political prophets in Massachusetts, Mr. Butler's announce- | ment insures his victory in the Repub- lican primaries next September and in- | sures his defeat at the polls in November. | (Copyright, 1930.) | ——— o Oregon Pageant Urged To Honor Trail Blazers From the Portland Oreon Journal. President Hoover proclaims the holl- day of the covered wagon. He pro- Doses that April 10, 1930, anniversary of the departure for Oregon of the first wagon train mrt t:",. Louls, be natlon- 1ly commemorated. A .l'}"hus the President of the United | States creates oficinlly an excellent op- | portunity to attract attention to Oregon | and the Pacific Northwest. 1t is the time when the National Geo- graphic Magazine should devote the Tumber, long pleaded for, to Oregon. The projected filming of the epic spectacle of the Old Oragon Trail should be done promptly, Among Oregon scenes, and distributed while inferest runs high. There ought to be presented here a pageant fit to thrill every lover of ple- turesque history, 1t ought to be n pageant capable of oalling apecial teains and motor parties from all over the country. @uch a pageant should itself | o as a dry and in opposition to the re- peal of the “baby Volstead act” as the State enforcement law is called. Provided they a both nominated and head the Republican ticket in Massachusetts this Fall, the State is likely to become a wet and dry battle- ground. The Democratic candidates for both offices will, it is predicted, espouse the wet cause. Nearly all the Demo- crats in Massachusetts are wet. The Democrats believe, too, that the wet cause is much more popular in the State today than is the dry cause. PR With a majority of the Republicans in Massachusetts aligned with the drys, there wasnt much else for Mr. Butler to do. At least he has not sought to straddle the issue, like so many other candidates. As a dry he will win or lose, sink or swim. It is quite true that the Republicans also have a wet candi- date for the senatorial mnomination, Eben S. Draper. And the Boston Tran- script has editorially demanded the ination of Mr Draper. It said: ‘We now know where we stand. On i the one hand is Mr. Butler, a dry; on | the other, Eben 8. Draper, a wet. We Assume that one of the objects—indeed the prime object of the Republican party—is to send a Republican to the United States Senate. That being th> case, the course now open to it is to nominate Mr. Draper and elect him. With conditions and sentiment in the avnvg as they are, there is no alterna el e e Clearly the Boston Transcript does| not consider the dry cause strong in the Bay State. It may be recalled that the Transerlpt not so long ago strongly urged upon former President Calvin Coolidge that he become the nominee of the Republican party for the Senate. It did _its level best to draft Mr. Cool- idge. But the former President remained aloof. Had Mr. Coolidge been persuaded to enter the race for the nomination, would the Transcript have supported him if he had followed Mr. Butler's present course and announced himself a dry? Probably the Transcript would have continued to support Mr. Coolidge on the theory that, wet or dry, no one could have defeated Calvin Coolidge in Massachusetts’ primary or election. The former President, however, is spared the necessity of announcing himself either a wet or a dry at this juncture. Mr. Butler has declared himself a dry. He emphasizes, however, that he is a friend of business and his platform will be better business and more em- ployment for the people of Massachu- setts. Perhaps these issues may in the end appeal more strongly to the voters of Massachusetts than the rum ques- tion. The chances are, it is said, that Mr. Butler will win the nomination for the Senate over Mr. Draper. The race between the two should give some in- dication of the wet and dry within the Republican party in Massa- chusetts itself. The primary does not take place until next September. There is plenty of time for the situation to develop more fully in the State before the voters go to the polls. . The Transcript declares thefi Mr. Draper, if nominated, can be elected to the Senate. It taki dry Republicans will submerge their dry desires and support & wet Republican in the general election, but that wet Republicans will flop over to a wet Dem- ocratic nominee for the Senate. On the other hand, it does not believe that dry Democrats would abandon their party allegiance to support a dry Republican. e s This wet and dry question is causing the Republicans in the North and Easi almost as much misery in the coming congressional elections as it caused the Democratic party nationally in the elec- tion of 1928. Under the leadership of former Senator James W. Wadsworth and other wet Republicans, the issue has been forced into Republican clubs of prominence in New York. The National Republican Club adopted a wel resolution at a meeting last week after a bitter wrangle. The New York Republican drys are up in arms again. They claim that the wet Republican faction has adopted a “rule or ruin” policy. If that be the case, the wet faction has merely clipped a page from the dry faction’s own book. Back in 1926 the dry faction in New York made the victory of Senator Wadsworth in the senatorial election impossible by the mere expedient of placing in the field an Independent dry Republican who recelved about 300,000 votes—votes which if cast for Wadsworth would have elected him fo the Senate over the Democratic candidate, Senator Wagner, another wet. The fanatical dry Repub- licans in 1926 were willing to bring defeat to the Republican party rather than take Senator Wadsworth. Now they are complaining that Senal Wadsworth and the other Republican wets are bent on disrupting the party. It’s a complaint that does not come with particularly good grace from the drys. * ko % ‘The rumpus over prohibition between the Republican factions in New York is playing into the hands of the Demo- crats in the coming congressional and gubernatorial elections. There is no election for Senator there this year. The failure of the Republicans in the Empire State to get together is en- dangering all chance of their winning the governorship. Franklin D. Roose- velt will be a candidate to succeed him- self as governor on the Democratic Ucket, it is now expected. And if he is re-elected, he at once becomes a formi- dable candidate for the Democratic presidential nomination in 1932. The governor's own wishes and his physical condition, however, may be factors in the situation. oKk X Gov, Albert C. Ritchie is to be a can- didate for a fourth term as Governor of Maryland and, according to the latest word from that State, Maryland has become accustomed to voting for Gov. Ritchie. The chances are that he will be renominated, despite the candidacy of David G. Mclntosh, State Senator from Baltimore County, who has an- nounced his intention of seeking the democratic nomination. This is an “off year” with no presidential election, which is usually helpful to the Demo- crats in the State election. At any rate, if Gov. Ritchie is renominated, he will be re-elected, unless there should be an uprising among the Democrats of the State, which has not been mani- fest so far. Should Ritchle be re- elected, he, too, will be in the limelight when it comes time for the Democrats to select a presidential nominee, In 1 Go tchie was n “favorite son” candidate at the Madison Square Giarden convention, 1In 1028 he threw his sup- line-up | the view that | Address The Evening turn postage. J. Star Information Bureau, Frederic Haskin, director, Washington, D. c., Q. To what extent have billboards in the United States been posted with the phrase, ‘‘Business is good—Keep it going ANothln{ can stop United States,” ete.? iof these posters displayed in 17,500 | eities and towns in the United States. | Q. What are the names of the mem- | bers of the Revelers Quartet?—H. 8. | A. They are James Melton, tenor; | Lewis James, second tenor; Elliot Shaw, | baritone, and Wilfred Glenn, bass. This iis one of the oldest groups én broad- ! casting, being formerly known as the Shannon Four, Q. Would a eanal across Nicaragua cost more than the Panama Canal?— |L. D. G. | "A. The cost of the proposed Nicara- | guan Canal would be several times the cost of the Panama Canal. The Nicara- guan Canal would be about 183 miles in length, 70 miles of which will be in 50 miles along the 8an Juan River, and the remainder through the mountain section. The region of Lake Gatun In the Panama Canal is 85 feet above mean sea level. The level of Lake Nicaragua is 105 feet. ‘The greater elevation of Lake Nicaragua | 1p one of the main features of the added | dost of the Nicaraguan Canal. Q. Who was our first Ambassador to B-- renk. ! Q. Of what fonality was Hof- in the Temple"?—H. J. M. A. He was & German, born at Darm- (stadt in 1824. He died in 1902. pictures owe their popularity to his illus- trative talent and ideal conceptions of | biblical events. up to bat in base ball swing two or three clubs until he steps to the plate?— S.N.T. A. Base ball players say that ing several clubs makes the on retained seem light in the hands and easy to control. swing. that Q. Has the United States advised | Liberia in its financial affairs?>—J. W. C. A. The United States has intervened in Liberia twice to effect a financial re- organization. In 1909 President Roose- velt appointed a commission to visit Liberia and investigate the condition of the country, and by June, 1912, all dif- ficulties which Liberla had had with the Gérman government over financial loans were overcome, and an interna- tional loan of $1,700,000 was raised. The customs duties and certain taxes were P as seeurity for the loan, and are administered by an American receiver general, who is also financial adviser to the Liberia government. Thus, in effect, the control of finances is in the hands of the United States. A. There were approximately 50,000 | mann, who painted the famous “Christ | His | Q. Why does a man who is coming | A. It occurs in Arizona, Arkans California, New Mexico, Kentucky, M souri, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, | Utah' and Virginia. Q. When did women in New York stu!u get thefr first suffrage privileges?—- J. | ""A. The first suffrage privilege permit- | ting voting on school matters was given | women in New York State in 1880. Q. Please give a biography of the | 1ate D. H. Lawrence, British novelist. . L. A. David Herbert Lawrence, son of a coal miner, was born in Eastwood, Not- | tingham, England, on September 11, | 1885. His youth was spent in the en- | vironment of grime and po |forms the background of Lovers,” his best known and perhaps | greatest 'novel. Working his way through Nottingham University, he | taught school for a time in a small | mining village. In 1914 Lawrence mar- ried Frieda von Richthofen, a woman of noble lineage, daughter of the Ger- man governor of Alsace-Lorraine and & sister of Baron Manfred von Richt- hofen, noted German ace. During the | war the author, an intense pacifisi, | went with his wife to Cornwall, Eng- |1and, where, very poor, he worked in |the flelds as well as wrote. He was declared consumptive and rejected for | military service. Nevertheless he was suspected of spying and driven from Cornwall. War years are described in his novel, “Kangaroo.” It is said | that in appearance Lawrence resemble Robert Louis Stevenson. At 44 he had published 21 volumes of novels, short | stories, essays, travel books and plays, as well as numerous contributions tn magazines. of Nice. | . Q. What is the past tense of the verb broadcast?—S. A, | A. WHile dictionaries give both broad- cast and broadcasted as the past tense, 1adio announcers seem to have settled |upon broadcast as the preferred form. Q. Please give an example of a blood- | less revolution—B. M. | _A. The revolution which resulted in | the establishment of the German Re- | public has often been referred to as a bloodless revolution, because the change He died in Venice, a suburb 18| in government was accomplished with- {out conflict other than some street fighting in Berlin and other cities. Q. How much gold is produced in the world in a year?—J, M. A. In 1928 the gold production in ‘Transvaal, Cape Colony and Natal |amounted to $214.041,633, and the pro- duction of the Unif States was $44.- 335,300. Canada had a production of $39,082,005; Russia_of $24,806,201; Mexico, $14,451,721; Rhodesia, $11,999 - 282, and Australia and New Zealand, $13,078,925. Q. Can an emigrant from the old oo\antry brir:g b:lgh n:lm lllhhls clothes and personal i without payin, duty;:c A. H. - i A. An emigrant entering the United States is allowed to bring all his per- sonal effects free of duty. i’ublic Hopes Better Caréer | Is Ahead as Cook Leaves Cell | | Parole for Dr. Frederick A. Cook, who | claimed to have reached the North Pole | at the time of Peary’s achievement and to have accomplished other spectacular things which were unverified, brings reminiscent smiles to the public. He has been at Leavenworth for several years on & charge of using the mails to defraud in connection with stocks, and Attorney General Mitchell orders con- ditional release for good behavior. Kindly wishes for a more honorable career are extended by Americans. He's & time by the multitude and who lived rest of his days. “Tell it to the Danes,” the public jeered 20 years ago, when the hoax was exploded and the tawdry hero fell. But it has pity now for a broken man no hll'!l‘}'fl:n&"‘ “Give the doctor room " exclaims the ¢ | Charleston Evening Post, with the com- ment on his career: “A faker on a grand scale, Dr. Cook is really an engaging character, and his return to society will not offend the sensibilities of many people. He has been a model prisoner, his jailers say, and five years of penal servitude are a good deal to cut from the life of a man who is no longer 1t is hardly likely that he will serjously deceive anybody again, he does it will be a simple matter to cancel his parole and send him back to Leavenworth. Meantime, one of his genius ought to be able to tell a good yarn about life in a Federal jail ~“For lack of a better term, it may be said he suffered from a Baron Mun- chausen complex,” suggests the Louis- ville Courier-Journal, ‘the itch of travelers to falsify was in his blood serjous vein that paper Cook was not all fake. He was an ex- plorer of persistence and courage. Amundsen, who was with him in the Antarctic, has vouched for this, and when he was in the United States on his last visit he went to Leavenworth to see his old companion. Cook’s early record ] s for itself. He accom- to the frozen North in n_of the expedition. he went to the Far South, and for his services won distinguished honors, the decoration of the Order of Leopold, the gold medal of the Rn{lll Society and the silver medal of the clety. * ok ko Pointing out that he “must begin life all over again, at an age when most men are ready to retire,” the Roanoke Times reviews varied and checkered of Ohio is threatening a political come- back this year, either as candidate for governor or Senator. It begins to look, however, as though the Democrats were being forced into taking the wet side of the Dm:lnbflmm gl move in twentieth eentury covered wag- ons, both Pullman coachy biles, over the eotrse { 1t should find a climax , chief city standing al the end of: the t rail. But in all the celebration preparation a sentiment will claim its tear. If the pioneers, who never knew a holiday on the dim and fearsome trail, could only share in this one, called to honor thelr mamzrbl ‘ThHey were builders of the Nation, these men and women who marked with wheels and hopes the Oregon Trall, pt il Who Cares, Anyway? From the Racine Journal-News. It was & long time ago thai tha weather made up its mind it conld net please everybody, and quit trying, More Static. Prom the Toronto, Ontario, Canada Btar. Some people are so anxious to get all wllelty GI’O‘-' the radio porters to Al Smith for the presidential nomination, Me and his supporters for the presidency have had thelr eyes on 1932 for & long Hme. ‘They belleve he should have the baoking of the big East- orn apd Narthern Atates; they think, too, that Gov. Rikehie will be more ac- ceptabile 14 the Bouth than was Gov. Hmiih, ml\nz 1, like Bmith, he is a we L) flmx €4 AN, It seems quite ¢ thak 1F (v, Ritehle 18 to be a vandidate fay the presidential nomina- Hon, he Wiak be & candidate this year 08 @aVerHAL . % ‘e diy Demoorats —and there are lenty A them 1 the South, thou oW bly in Kansas Ol Bul what dv figu naw head & above the rest? Joe nson_of Arkansas, AL hence. oor re rises . enslar " the yunn is nevert they can for t money that they leb wet. He is the party leader of the Tun 23 igh T e vt o, &, Vio elections. there will be plenty of d the lowers to deman: nomina Al Smith himself. Many of them lieve that the last campaign was merely a umulfi of education, and that when 1932 rolls round, former Gov. Smith will be able to carry the coun- South.” It is failure to supj Molbul;-b,: including the “solid out that However, it nd if | Royal Geographical So-‘ career,” and continues: “His name is assoclated in the public mind with a monumental hoax which he has stead- fastly denied. It is to be hoped that he will make good use of his freedom in whatever years of life remain to him.” ‘The Indianapolis Star also affirms that “his fellow countrymen will wish him well,” voicing its conception of the pub- lic attitude toward the man: “Dr. Cook. is not the kind of man to arouse on the part of those who may Bave placed wreaths about his neck when he Arrived in Copenhagen. He is ered the Pole that he probably believes | not only one who enjoys the it himself now,” says the Cleveland | plat the muititude. tv’eri' com- Plain Dealer, adding: “The tolerant | munit; its Dr. Cooks who are will- world now smiles incredulously, but|ing to ga to almost any limit to get into cannot fail to see the drama in the life | the limelight. He stretched the limit & story of this pleasant and plausible ad- | little more than some among them.” venturer in the back of science,| “The e will return to civil life who was feted by a , believed for | at 64,” the New York Sun, “still cheerful in cpite of the vicissitudes he hi tered to begin his old age in a felon's cell. i ‘The world will not begrudge him Success | As dsiver of & milk wagon 1 Broskisn; in his effort to salvage enough from his | as as explorer, as promoter tarnished notoriety to live in peace the | of t oll companies, he has had his ups l,d downs. He may not have scaled 'Mount McKinley, he may not have hed the North Pole, but he has never 'lacked for ability to e others (to believe he has done both and many pther useful things besides.” * ok x x i?dm‘ 4 evidence of an mind") is expect y ‘Times,’ holding that his thoughts “na urally run to charting out unusual courses” and expressing the hope that “the logic of his experience has taught him the larger usefulness to which he should set his undoubted intellectual and imaginative powers.” The 1d Union, however, suggesting ‘Attorney General Mitchell evidently is of the opinion that Cook has been suffi- clently chastened and reformed by the punishment he has undergone,” adds that “whether or not this opinion is justified remains to be seen.” “On the whole, he played in abomi- nable luck,™as viewed by the Baltimore Sun, and that paper adds: “Others | unscrupulous as he have succeeded only | because they worked on a smaller, leas entertaining scale and in greater for- tune. Now he is starting =1l over again, he says. One almost wants {o wish him {luck—and, at least, better j ent.” | The Sun's analysis also includes the statement as to the characteristics of Dr. Cook: “He should at some time or another be accorded that study now given to all remarkable personalities, whether they are wholly benevolent, genuine and sanctified or mnot. Dr. Cook, it is true, has to his credit almost no solid achievement save one: the ex- ploitation of himself, an exploitation so thoroughgoing and historic that he is one of the few men out of first 10 vears of the century whose names are | still familiar and significant. And this should be qualification enough. s a matter of fact, Dr. Cook was an em- bodiment i almost every one of the characteristic popular American virtues. Only in him they had gone somewhat | astray, turnec slightly vicious ar ~ be: come wholesomely burlesque. AR St It's Doubtful Fame. From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. Gov. Sampson of Kentucky is moving |into the front rank. The Legislature has just overridden a veto. | e ———— He Might Try. Prom the Worcester Evening Gazetle. Dr. Cook is out again, but there are no more poles to discover. o Them Wuz the Days. Prom the Canton Daily News. An explorer tells us th‘At the people of the Stone Age were grea , have ing plenty of stones and no glass houses. But He “Came Clean.” From the Altoona Mirror. stolen bathtub th New York later found ‘water. Not That Kind of Park. om the Janesville Dally Gazette. One ' these great,